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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: out with us as we roll through the Memorial Day Friday.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you are going to be hopping in

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Speaker 1: a best of on Monday. Yes, that does exist. I'm

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Speaker 1: told buck Sexton is out today. He is on early

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Speaker 1: vacation with his early Memorial Day weekend vacation with his girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: They're having a fantastic time. I hope as we track

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Speaker 1: was turned into a serious story. Seventy two hours after

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Speaker 1: the shooting in Yuval Day, Texas, we have been reacting

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Speaker 1: to the press conference that we began this show with live.

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Speaker 1: Prior to knowing about the shooting situation and the fallout

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Speaker 1: from that, we had recorded an interview with Florida Governor

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Speaker 1: did this so, thinking it was going to be a Friday,

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Speaker 1: relaxing Memorial Day headed into the weekend, we did this interview.

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Speaker 1: But I want you to know it's not live, and

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Speaker 1: that's why we're not reacting to shooting related news and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But I do think you will enjoy this. This is

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Speaker 1: Florida Governor Ron de Santis, and I hope you enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: By the way, before we play it, I want to

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Speaker 1: also let you know I want law enforcement to react

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Speaker 1: in particular. One eight hundred two eight two two eight

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Speaker 1: calls reacting to the data and details and facts that

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Speaker 1: are coming out surrounding the shooting inside of that school.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you want to weigh in. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: all of you calling in one eight hundred two eight

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Speaker 1: program today, Governor about the fact that I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be coaching and involved in Little League Baseball over the

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend. Those are by big holiday plans. I

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Speaker 1: don't think your kids are quite old enough to be

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Speaker 1: involved in Little League, but I always think this is

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Speaker 1: pretty wild, and I'm not sure a lot of our

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Speaker 1: listeners know it. You played in the Little League World

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Speaker 1: Series as a kid up in Williamsport. Right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: And it was a type of thing where we at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season in Dunedin, Florida, our motto

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Speaker 1: and that was for we want Taiwan because Taiwan at

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Speaker 1: the time was the juggernaut and they would win the

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Speaker 1: Little League World Series, remember and then not and you know,

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Speaker 1: it then came out years later that you know, they

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Speaker 1: and so that was kind of our goal. So we

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Speaker 1: entire southeast at thirteen states, and there were only four

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Speaker 1: American teams that would make it back then, and so

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Speaker 1: that was a huge, huge undertaking and we made it

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Speaker 1: it was a heck of a ride. And just now

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Speaker 1: as a parent, yeah, my kids are five, four and two.

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Speaker 1: much the parents have to put into these seasons. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't really have summer vacation plans when you're in

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Speaker 1: But we had duneed An American one game away from

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Speaker 1: The Yale field introduced him to the team and we had,

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Speaker 1: What would you have said about Ron De Santis college

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Speaker 1: to Santis hit one hundred points higher than George Bush

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Speaker 1: The collordentified I'll not say her name, but she was

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Speaker 1: o three the racial The call was one minute twenty

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Speaker 1: three seconds. She identified herself and whispered, she's in Room

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Speaker 1: one twelve. At twelve ten, she called back in Room twelve,

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Speaker 1: ad buys her multiple or dead twell thirteen again. She

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Speaker 1: called on the phone again. At twelve sixteen, she's called

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Speaker 1: back and said there was eight to nine students alive.

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Speaker 1: At twelve nineteen, one call was made and another person

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Speaker 1: student told her to hung up. At twelve twenty one,

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Speaker 1: you could hear or the nine one one call for

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Speaker 1: three shots were fired at twelve thirty six nine one

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Speaker 1: one call. It lasted for twenty one seconds. The initial

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Speaker 1: caller called back, student child called back. It was told

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Speaker 1: to stay on the line and be very quiet. She

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Speaker 1: told nine to one that he shot the door at

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Speaker 1: her Prodictly twelve forty three and twelve forty seven. She

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Speaker 1: asked nine one one to police. Send the police now,

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Speaker 1: so those calls coming in nine one one. It was

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Speaker 1: wrong not to have breached the door. We've got a

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Speaker 1: couple of different people out there who want to way

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Speaker 1: in on this, and we've obviously been taking a lot

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Speaker 1: of law enforcement calls, and the first caller is Jack

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Speaker 1: and Adams County, Pennsylvania. You're a police sergeant. When you

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Speaker 1: hear those calls about the nine one one calls, when

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Speaker 1: you hear that they allowed this man to stay inside

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Speaker 1: for seventy five minutes when there were still kids and

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Speaker 1: teachers alive in those classrooms, your thoughts are what it

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Speaker 1: just it makes me want to vomit. We are trained

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Speaker 1: every day, annually, biannually, triannually how to take care of

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Speaker 1: situations like this, and it's unquestionable that if you're the

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Speaker 1: first on sceneman there's active shooting, an active shooter going on,

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Speaker 1: that you make entry no matter what means. If you

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Speaker 1: have to run a police pruiser through the front door,

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Speaker 1: you make entry and neutralize that threat. So would you

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Speaker 1: hear that police were inside two minutes? So this guy,

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Speaker 1: according to the press conference, was inside at eleven thirty three.

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Speaker 1: By eleven thirty five, there were multiple police officers in

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Speaker 1: the school pursuing him, and then they just fall back

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Speaker 1: and decide to set up a perimeter after exchanging gunfire

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Speaker 1: with him. In your mind, that's totally unacceptable police behavior.

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Speaker 1: It is unacceptable police behavior. I would hope that I

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Speaker 1: would never react like that. It's a situation that I've

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Speaker 1: not been in. But we train, like I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: triannually to take care of situations like this. And the

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Speaker 1: alert training that I was involved in, it's based out

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Speaker 1: of Texas State University's Advanced Law Enforcement Rapidly Sponse training

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Speaker 1: teaches this and we you know, we train with that

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Speaker 1: alert training. It's basic and the number one lesson there

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Speaker 1: is engage active shooters go basically sorry the phrase here,

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Speaker 1: but balls to the wall. If you're a police officer

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Speaker 1: and you're responding and there's an armed man in the school,

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Speaker 1: you throw everything else out of the window and you

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Speaker 1: go after that guy with the idea being maybe you

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Speaker 1: can get him down, maybe he gets you down. But

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Speaker 1: if he's coming after the police, he's not focused on

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Speaker 1: kids or teachers. Correct, it's I like your turn, balls

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Speaker 1: to the wall. Yeah, we you know, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: if it's a two months rookie or a twenty three

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Speaker 1: year old sergeant veteran that his first one the seam.

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Speaker 1: They are trained to go in that door, whatever means,

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Speaker 1: go to the sounds of the gunfire and neutralize the

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Speaker 1: threat that Thank you for your training, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: your call, sir. We appreciate you letting us know. That's

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Speaker 1: why I want to hear and thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: as well. That's Jack and Adams County, Pennsylvania Police sergeant.

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Speaker 1: I mean, hearing from you guys far more valuable than

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Speaker 1: hearing from me. And that's why this show is so

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Speaker 1: powerful is there's so many people with great understanding of

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Speaker 1: these particular situations, including I'm told Cason in Raleigh, North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: former Army ranger and cop. You heard me play that

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Speaker 1: nine those nine to eleven calls chilling in the degree

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Speaker 1: that they were occurring inside of rooms one eleven and

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Speaker 1: one twelve. You also heard me say the police now

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Speaker 1: saying it was a mistake not to go in. When

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Speaker 1: you hear seventy five minutes that they allowed this guy

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Speaker 1: to stay with a gun inside of those rooms with

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Speaker 1: the kids, your reaction is what's It's just terrible. My

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Speaker 1: heart goes out to the family of lost kids and

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Speaker 1: three small kids, and I wouldn't know what I would

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Speaker 1: do any one of them are in this situation. I

512
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Speaker 1: mean I would, I would get up and drove to

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Speaker 1: my kids' school and go in there after the after

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Speaker 1: the shooter. But uh yeah, it's just it's terrible. Um.

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Speaker 1: We as law enforcement and uh in my background military,

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Speaker 1: I do not like to fail. And uh, we just

517
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Speaker 1: have to call it, call it like it is. This

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Speaker 1: is just a felt this is a mistake. Uh. Smart

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Speaker 1: people learn from their own mistakes, whilest people learn from

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Speaker 1: other people's mistakes. And I think people in situations unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: when this happens again, officers will respond more perfectly learning

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Speaker 1: from this mistake. Um, it's I mean, it comes down

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Speaker 1: to it's uh really, it's a sin problem in the world.

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Speaker 1: It's we Uh we all think, hey, we know what's best.

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Speaker 1: But if we just put Jesus first. Paul, but his

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Speaker 1: teachings are read the Bible, pray, We're not gonna go wrong.

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Speaker 1: We're only going to get better. We're gonna get strong

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Speaker 1: as a nation. You're gonna get strong as a person,

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Speaker 1: growing our relationship with the Lord. I appreciate your work,

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Speaker 1: I apreciate your call, and certainly there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who appreciate what you just closed with. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to talk with a gentleman

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Speaker 1: named Nick Leo, his father, grandfather, my bad ninety nine

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Speaker 1: year old World War Two veteran. I think you're going

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Speaker 1: to love this story. It's going to leave you inspired

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Speaker 1: as we go into Memorial Day weekend that is next,

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Speaker 1: and these people are doing an amazing job. As we

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Speaker 1: enter Memorial Day weekend, it's important to remember why Monday's

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Speaker 1: a national holiday. One organization that never forgets the sacrifices

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Speaker 1: America's heroes have made for us is Tunnels to Towers.

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Speaker 1: With each mortgage free home provided to a family in need,

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Speaker 1: the Tunnel to Towers Foundation delivers on its promise to

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Speaker 1: do good, never forget. People who've risked their lives for

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Speaker 1: our country and our communities needs your help now more

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Speaker 1: than ever. It's gold Star fallen first responder families with

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Speaker 1: young kids. That also includes our nation's most severely injured

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Speaker 1: first responders, veterans, even our homeless service members. For some families,

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Speaker 1: the foundation brings the comfort of knowing they can stay

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Speaker 1: in the home they made memories in with their fallen

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Speaker 1: loved one. For other families, foundation enables new memories to

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Speaker 1: be cherished forever. All of this possible because of your

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Speaker 1: generosity and support help our nation's greatest heroes and their families.

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Speaker 1: You can join us and join Buck and I, who

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Speaker 1: have both done this as well, in donating eleven dollars

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Speaker 1: That's t the number two t dot org. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: In final segment of the week, the Friday before Memorial Day,

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Speaker 1: we wanted to make sure that we honored the service

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Speaker 1: of all those who have given their lives for this country.

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Speaker 1: And we have a great Memorial Day story for you

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Speaker 1: right here. So Nick Leo is about to hop on

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Speaker 1: with us. His grandfather, Nicholas Leo, joined the US Army

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Speaker 1: at nineteen as a member of the twenty third Headquarters

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Speaker 1: Special Troops known as the Ghost Army. They landed in Norman.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I have been to Normandy. One of

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Speaker 1: the greatest days of my life was getting to spend

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Speaker 1: an entire day touring the beaches of Normandy. It still

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Speaker 1: looks almost identical in many of those places too. It

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Speaker 1: did too, as it did in nineteen forty four when

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Speaker 1: our army stormed the beaches there. While in France, Nicholas

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Speaker 1: Leo met a young frenchwoman named Pierrette Muller fell in love.

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Speaker 1: After the war, he went back to France to marry her,

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Speaker 1: with German POWs as witnesses. They were together seventy five

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Speaker 1: years before she passed away in twenty twenty. He joined

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Speaker 1: the Navy Reserve served as a Navy radio operator during

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Speaker 1: the Korean War aboard the destroyer USS Gatling. Where this

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Speaker 1: comes into account here is I have open dms. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: that's because people are telling me that I'm the worst

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Speaker 1: human being on a planet. Other times it happens that

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Speaker 1: some people slide in and tell me interesting things. I

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Speaker 1: can't keep up with all of them. But I happened

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Speaker 1: to be able to see Nick's message to me. Nick,

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Speaker 1: come in and tell people what you sent to me

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Speaker 1: and what happened as a result. Hey, Clay, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Thanks for having me on. So we had

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Speaker 1: a ceremony from my grandfather in our local town, and

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Speaker 1: we had a couple of representatives of local government from

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Speaker 1: both New York Senators Schumer and Jillibrand, and he received

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Speaker 1: all this recognition, and he also got letters from Pelosi

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Speaker 1: and Biden and my grandfather hates problem every single one

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Speaker 1: of those people and have had and Jilbrand actually shown up.

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Speaker 1: He might have had some words, but he was very

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Speaker 1: respectable to everybody because it's such as Honnor. Now. I

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Speaker 1: said to him after, by the way, he's ninety nine

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Speaker 1: years old at the time, that all this ceremony is

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Speaker 1: going on, right, Yeah, exactly, but you know, and he's

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Speaker 1: still as quick as you can imagine for a ninety

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Speaker 1: nine year old. I mean, nothing gets past him. So

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Speaker 1: Trump was his favorite president of all time. And I

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Speaker 1: said to him after, I said, this is too bad

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Speaker 1: that you couldn't have gotten this letter and all this

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Speaker 1: recognition when Trump was in office, and he goes, that's

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Speaker 1: my only regret. I waited all these years. This was

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Speaker 1: the classified in nineteen ninety six that he was part

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Speaker 1: of this, so it's been a long time coming that

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Speaker 1: he got this recognition. So I said to him, he said,

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Speaker 1: I just wish this would happened under Trump. So I

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Speaker 1: thought to myself, I said, how can I get him

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Speaker 1: something from Trump? So that's when I went to Twitter

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Speaker 1: and I sent a bunch of dms out to the

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Speaker 1: Trump kids. Kaylee Lauren Bobert Marjorie Taylor Green. And then

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Speaker 1: I thought to myself, send it to Claik. Send it

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Speaker 1: to Clay, of course, and you checked at DMS, and

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Speaker 1: within five minutes, sure enough, I got a response. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I was like, wow, that was quick.

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Speaker 1: So I said to you, I asked if possibly you

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Speaker 1: could get maybe something over to the Trump people, that

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Speaker 1: we could possibly get him a letter saying something similar

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Speaker 1: to what we got from Biden. And within two weeks

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Speaker 1: from you responding, I come home from worked and find

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Speaker 1: a letter addressed with the presidential seal and West Palm

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Speaker 1: Beach address on it. And when you gotta be kidding me,

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Speaker 1: so sure enough I opened it and it is exactly

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Speaker 1: what I thought it was going to be a letter

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Speaker 1: for my grandfather, congratulating him on this honor from Donald J. Trump.

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Speaker 1: So I you know you had made that happen, and

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Speaker 1: it just it blew my mind that it was like

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Speaker 1: it went from just a DM to get this letter

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Speaker 1: in the mail. And then the next day I brought

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Speaker 1: it over to him, and you should I handed him,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't. He looked at for a minute and

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Speaker 1: then alsodden. He looks up at me and his face

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Speaker 1: gets all bright and just goes Trump and I went, yep,

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Speaker 1: I got through a letter from Trump, and he was like,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me, and he goes, I go, no, no,

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Speaker 1: he goes. Of all the politicians I've written over the

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Speaker 1: last how many years he has, he goes, the only

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Speaker 1: guy who's ever responded is from Trump. And now I

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Speaker 1: finally got a letter from him personally congratulating me. And

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Speaker 1: it made his day. When I tell you, he talks

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Speaker 1: for two hours straight. I haven't seen him with this

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Speaker 1: much energy in months, and you know, I just wanted

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Speaker 1: me and my family play. Are just so thankful for

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Speaker 1: so long for this recognition. Then Trump was his favorite

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Speaker 1: a letter from Donald Trump, his favorite president, and I look,

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Speaker 1: eternally thankful to particularly World War Two veterans, right if

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Speaker 1: responded almost you know, like you said, fairly instantly. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that he would just because he had gotten a

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Speaker 1: he wished this had happened when Trump was in office.

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Speaker 1: they declassified it, and then you add another how many

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Speaker 1: years for this to go through the Congress, And I

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Speaker 1: If you look at the picture that I had sent

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Speaker 1: smile on his face. You could just it just shows

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Speaker 1: how happy and grateful he was of it all in together,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, and look it's up. I believe at Clay

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Speaker 1: and Buck. There's so many awful stories. I feel like,

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Speaker 1: as you well know, Nick, on a day to day

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Speaker 1: light of day. So I just want to thank your grandfather,

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Speaker 1: thank everyone out there who served and have given their lives. Nick,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you reaching out to me. I was glad

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Speaker 1: him to be honored for his service. I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: And I hope you and your family are are able

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Speaker 1: was an incredible life that he had. Thanks Nick, Thanks Play,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much again in our family, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Try to do a little bit of good out there

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Speaker 1: as we roll into the Memorial Day weekend. Look, this

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Speaker 1: is an incredible honor to get to talk to you

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Speaker 1: guys every day because so many of you have served

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Speaker 1: and fought for this nation. Whatever you're doing with your family,

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Speaker 1: take a moment to thank everyone who has given their

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Speaker 1: lives to allow us to have the freedom that we

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Speaker 1: do every single day. People like Nicholas Leo ninety nine

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Speaker 1: years old who stormed the beaches of Normandy to preserve

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Speaker 1: freedom for the world. Thanks to Donald Trump for helping

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Speaker 1: to honor him. Thanks to all of you for honoring

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Speaker 1: us with your time every single day. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Monday. Best of Tuesday Live. This has been Clay

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Speaker 1: and bok Sleet, Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines.

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